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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Subject: Re: ACPI buttons in 2.6.12-rc4-mm2
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:35:43 -0400
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Brown, Len wrote:
> I agree that the value of _LID can be usefult to user-space
> and I'll be sure it is restored as a property of the lid device
> under sysfs -- available as a simple file read like it
> was under /proc.

You're missing the point, removing the /proc feature breaks existing 
code. You can add new features in /sys as you like, but when you remove 
existing featires you break system for no benefit.